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A married woman convicted of domestic battery against a man with whom she was involved in an on-again, off-again romantic
relationship couldn’t persuade an appeals court that it was a stretch to apply the criminal statute in her situation.

It’s one thing to talk about work-life balance; it’s another thing to actually find ways to achieve it. Keeping
personal lives rich and maintaining connections with family and friends can be challenging, but those who’ve employed
creative means to do so say it eases pressures often felt in a time-consuming profession like the practice of law.

The American Bar Association Task Force for the Future of Legal Education, led by Randall Shepard, retired chief justice of
the Indiana Supreme Court, issued its draft report Friday, Sept. 20, with recommendations for improving law schools.

Court reporters part of the “StenOps” team reporting the military tribunal hearings of suspected terrorists at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be among the featured speakers at the annual convention of the Indiana Shorthand Reporters Association
Sept. 27-29.

Court reporters will make a case to a legislative commission this week that the state should set minimum standards and licensing
criteria for professionals who record and compile the transcripts of judicial proceedings.

Twelve thousand feet above rolling Indiana farmland, attorney Amy Romig prepares to jump, as the saying goes, out of a perfectly
good airplane. Most of the plane’s passengers are jittery first-time skydivers, but Romig’s nerves are just fine.
That’s because she’s done this 1,300 times.

Pilot or farmer, attorney or father, Chris Stevenson wears many hats. The lawyer, who has worked for Wilson Kehoe Winingham
LLC for going on 12 years, specializes in injury work, specifically that which is aviation- or farm-related.

World War II had just ended and the Baby Boom generation was making its debut when Philip “Skip” Kappes graduated
from the University of Michigan Law School. It was 1948 and, for those who were not alive or just too young to remember that
time, the following are a few facts that might help you gain perspective on the differences in American society between then
and now.

Luke Bielawski, a student at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, has spent the better part of his summer
teeing off from California to South Carolina as a fundraiser for Providence Cristo Rey High School in Indianapolis.

“River camps” along the Ohio River that date back to the 1930s may not be divided as lots of record based on the
testimony of longtime residents, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday, affirming a judgment of the Vanderburgh Circuit
Court.

A Speedway man accused of posting online death threats against a judge, an attorney and others has been charged in federal
court, according to a statement from the office of Joe Hogsett, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Indiana.